On his injuries: “Monday afternoon I had surgery
on my thumb and parts of my hand and then [I’ll] possibly have
surgery on my ankle. I had a fracture going into the fight on my
ankle that we thought was a high-ankle sprain, but it was really
just an actual little bone chip in my ankle.”

On whether his ankle affected his movement: “Not
at all, not at all. As the fight went on, it started hurting to
kick a little bit. In the end you noticed I was getting away from
my kicking. There was a lot of things going through my mind
obviously during the fight. You could tell [by] the look on my face
and just how the fight was going. I’m not that type of fighter
where I just sit back and chill for a little bit. When you’re
fighting a left-handed fighter, everything comes off your right
hand lead, and given what was going on with my right hand, it just
felt like all my setups, everything I’d been training and
practicing and drilling came off of that right hand lead. It wasn’t
something I was really, I guess, mentally prepared for. It kind of
just frustrated me and really got to me. That’s not normal for me.
I don’t normally get frustrated in a fight like that. I can usually
work around things.”

On his hand: “It happened in the first round. I
couldn’t tell you exactly when it happened in the first round. All
I know is I got back to the corner, and the commissioner was
standing right there and [coach Javier Mendez] goes, ‘Why aren’t
you throwing your punches? You’ve got to let your hands go more.’ …
I said, ‘Something’s wrong with my hand.’ I looked down and I
pushed a little on my thumb, and the commissioner was standing
right there, my corners were standing there, and my whole thumb
just kind of flopped back towards my wrist. It almost put me in
shock. … It kind of disgusted me, like, man, what’s going on? I
just knew it hurt. I didn’t know the severity of it until I saw it
flop back, and the commissioner even looked away. He grimaced and
looked away and was like, ‘Hey, you want me to stop the fight?’
There’s not really anything you can do about it. Let’s just see
what happens.”

On how he scored the fight: “I actually gave
myself three rounds to two, and then when I watched it when I came
back, I could see people giving me four to one. I could have seen
that, but I’m a little bit more critical of myself and I gave
myself three-two.”

On judging: “I think it’s just something that
we’ll continue to complain about, but in the meantime I’m still
sitting here with a loss on my record that I shouldn’t have.”

On Henderson: “Every time he got close to me, I
felt like I was able to get to the body lock and just take him
down. … All the things that I had in my mind with him being strong,
being a hard kicker, all those things, they weren’t true. I put
those in my head just from listening to commentary and from other
people talking about how hard he kicks or how strong he is and
these types of things. We got in there and locked up the first
couple of times and I didn’t feel intimidated at all. … Let me just
tell you, he’s not strong. He doesn’t hit hard. He’s not strong. He
doesn’t kick hard. All those things -- none of those things apply.
He’s a good athlete. He’s a good fighter. I’ll give him a lot of
credit, but the things that people think hurt didn’t hurt at
all.”